On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:04:43AM -0400, Alex at Avantel wrote: > On May 12, 2005 11:38 pm, Greg Franks wrote: > > Alex at Avantel wrote: > > >Here's my idea so far (after installing FC3 on the other box); > > > > > >1) let rpm tell me which files I've changed on the production system > > > - (rpm -V --all) > > > - edit this list to remove files obviously not neede > > > > Ouch -- sounds painful.. > > It's all just bash scripts . . . look for the ones where there's a change, > discard the rest. Using scripts to catch the changes, the list of files (& > directories) got whitled down to about 200 and then I manually deleted a few. > tar that up and bring it over to a vanilla FC3 install - or at least that's > the plan . . . first attempt wrecked my raid configuration (now that's an > ouch!) The problem with your method, if you want it to be repeatable, is that a lot of files aren't included in the rpm verify output. Any data or extra config files are going to be missing. You're really making this hard by trying to use a freshly installed system and copying changed config files, I think. mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE